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What's your most cruel prank so far? (mastodon.ml)

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What's your most cruel prank so far?

Hi. Have you ever woken up just feeling malicious, with a mood of "Man, I just wish to ruin someone's day for shits and giggles"? And what do you do in those situations?

I wonder, what's the best, meanest, cruelest prank you pulled on your friends or foes so far.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

@asklemmy Okay, I'll start.

I don't know if it was my worst - but it was notable.

Back in school, I wrote a worm using nothing but bat files. It were Windows 9x days, so it was fairly easy if you know your way around file shares. It removed most of the files and replaced autoexac.bat with a blinking message. I let it loose in the informatics classroom.

It was a huge scandal, the whole week of informatics curriculum was ruined, my parents got a call, I was made to reinstall everything. But after all the dust settled, I got a lifelong A+ from the informatics teacher. She also offered me and my gang to learn C after class, on a promise I put my nasty mind to good use.

[–] Valmond 9 points 4 days ago

Then everyone clapped

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We once did a collective book in class where everyone contributed something. My contribution was a simple DOS "virus" that would format the victims C drive.

The worst part was that since everyone's contribution was read out loud some poor kid had to read my bat script. Back then we didn't know how the @ sign is pronounced. We settled on alpha although I knew that was wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

@bjoern_tantau Lil bit of Cryptonomicon vibes, the collision of code and literature nice.